I downloaded music on dial-up but I never played games on it. I waited until I went to college and had access to their T1 line. First game I ever played online was Unreal Tournament 1. Got my @ss handed to me, and it was those college years that taught me that I'm an offline against-the-bots...
Metro Exodus with both expansions included is $6 on GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/metro_exodus_gold_edition
That's about what I paid for my Steam copy in 2023.
I've been using CachyOS on my secondary desktop PC since last year, and I think it's going to become my new main OS in the future. I've been using Manjaro happily since 2022, but there's some strife going on behind-the-scenes with the Manjaro group, and I question the distro's future. Not to...
Game Pass might be more appealing to console users, but on PC we have something called sales (thanks to places like Steam and GOG), and we have long lived in an age where a PC game can launch at $60 and then be $30 just a few months later, and $5 the very next year. And if you bother with EGS...
I checked out the Metro series here and there, but couldn't get into them until Exodus. I played the Enhanced Edition and the DLCs, and enjoyed it all. I only paid about 6 dollars for the game + expansions so it was low risk. I wanted something to check out on my new-for-me RTX 3090 in 2023, and...
Yeah from what I understand, Black Flag is the most highly regarded of all the AC games, and the reason people like it is not because it is an AC game, but because it is a pirate game (and an apparently good one at that).
Oh huh, I'm mostly used to the word "anhydrous" being associated with isopropyl:
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004SPJP5O/?tag=thefpsreview-20
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005DNQX3C/?tag=thefpsreview-20
Although they and Intel both had DisplayPort 2.x before nVidia did. I think AMD also had HDMI 2.1 before nVidia did. AMD fully supported low-level APIs like D3D12 and Vulkan before nVidia did. And in those days nVidia didn't have full support, for example Async Compute was faked in software. It...